How To Use halyard In A Sentence
- Crewmen scampered about, untying the gaskets on the yawl-rigged barge's tan sails, and halyards started creaking aboard other boats while mooring lines splashed over the side to be hauled up by longshoremen.
- He's used a halyard as a messenger line to run the one-inch hemp through the block. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
- The extrusions and the halyard swivel remain on your headstay, you do not need to buy these parts.
- The three islanders swarmed from the tiny forecastle, two of them leaping to the halyards and holding by a single turn, while the third fastened down the engineroom, companion and swung the ventilators around. Bunches of Knuckles
- It was soon ready, the boom topped up, preventer guys rove, and the idlers called up to man the halyards; yet such was still the force of the gale, that we were nearly an hour setting the sail; carried away the outhaul in doing it, and came very near snapping off the swinging boom. Chapter XXXIII. Cracking on-Progress Homeward-A Pleasant Sunday-A Fine Sight-By-Play
- And besides, I could tell anywhere the rattle of her main peak-blocks -- they're too large for the halyard. Chapter 15
- This meant climbing to the top of the 80 ft mast in a safety harness, with the yacht plunging in gusts of wind and a choppy sea, and holding on for dear life for five hours while she attached a spare halyard.
- All stays, halyards and standing rigging are adjustable with tiny turubuckles, and four AA batteries power the servos and eight batteries run the hand control unit.
- Two flags were stiffly undulating from the halyards like squares of flexible sheet-iron. Chapter 3
- An ensign-halyard-block is no more a pulley than your halberd is a boarding-pike. Pathfinder; or, the inland sea
